I think this is the case with real engineering companies. My wife works at Rijkswaterstaat, and there engineers bear direct responsibility for projects that are worth lives, and they can make important decisions about those projects for that reason. For example, a couple of years ago an engineer closed a bridge because of a lack of maintenance. Big scandal about the bridge getting closed, but the real scandal was that maintenance was so far behind. Turned out the engineer had warned about this several times before, but somehow those messages didn't arrive at the people in charge of planning and funding maintenance. So that was the process that really needed fixing (and the bridge, of course).

Heh... Interesting that you bring in Rijkswaterstaat as a counterexample, because I remember it from the story about the Botlek bridge and how they could not fix it for a couple years and when the root cause was identified, it turned out to be rust in an ethernet port [1].

[1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-rea...